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First Doctor - William Hartnell
Oct 1964 - July 1965
Season 2
No.CodeTitleFirst ShownEpsExistsVideo?

9.JPlanet of Giants31 Oct 643all
10.KThe Dalek Invasion of Earth21 Nov 646all
11.LThe Rescue2 Jan 652all
12.MThe Romans16 Jan 654all
13.NThe Web Planet13 Feb 656all
14.PThe Crusade27 Mar 6541,3
15.QThe Space Museum24 Apr 654all
16.RThe Chase22 May 656all
17.SThe Time Meddler3 Jul 654all

Planet of Giants

Episodes:

1. Planet of Giants3. Crisis
2. Dangerous Journey 
Cast:
The Doctor - William HartnellIan Chesterton - William Russell
Barbara Wright - Jaqueline HillSusan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
Plot:
Whilst trying to return Ian and Barbara to the twentieth century, the Doctor attempts an unorthodox new technique, causing the TARDIS doors to open in mid-flight, setting alarms ringing inside the craft.

Arriving on Earth, the time-travelers discover that they have all been reduced in size - they are now minute people in a world of giant objects. The TARDIS has landed them between the cracks in a garden patio - a garden teeming with giant worms, ants and cats. All deadly hazards for the miniature travelers.

To make matters worse, the TARDIS crew are caught up in the trials of a deadly new insecticide - DN6. A chemical so deadly that all insect life is threatened - a chemical that is also lethal to minuscule time-travelers...

Video Release: NTSC VHS Warner Home Video E1740

The Dalek Invasion of Earth

Episodes:

1. World's End4. The End of Tomorrow
2. The Daleks5. The Waking Ally
3. Day of reckoning6. Flash Point
Cast:
The Doctor - William HartnellIan Chesterton - William Russell
Barbara Wright - Jaqueline HillSusan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
Plot:
Radiation nil, oxygen normal, pressure normal . . . an Earth reading! The TARDIS has landed in London. A menacing deserted London, with no sign of life and no sense of normality, but the decaying city is not as empty as it seems. The year is 2164 and the travelers soon find themselves facing antagonists whom they thought they had destroyed . . . the Daleks. They have conquered the Earth.

Ten years after a cosmic storm, continents of people were wiped out by a plague. Then the Daleks came in saucers, shipping humans to vast mining areas, turning them into robomen and against their fellow humans. Earth contains something no other planet contains--a magnetic core--but why are the Daleks digging for it and how can the Doctor prevent them from tampering with the forces of creation?

Video Release: NTSC VHS Warner Home Video E1202
DVD Release: NTSC Warner Home Video E1813

The Rescue

Episodes:

1. Powerful Enemy2. Desperate Measures
Cast:
The Doctor - William HartnellIan Chesterton - William Russell
Barbara Wright - Jaqueline HillVicki - Maureen O'Brien
Plot:
Having left Susan on Earth, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara land the TARDIS on the planet Dido in the year 2493. There they discover two humans, Bennett and Vicki, trapped in their spaceship, the only crew to survive death at the hands of the hostile Didonians.

But the Doctor is baffled: the Didonians are a peaceful people. What has happened to change them? Why have they murdered the crew of the spaceship? Why, apart from the mysterious Koquillion, are they strangely absent?

The Doctor must find the answers - and quickly. For a rescue ship is on its way from Earth intent on revenge and time is running out for the planet...

Video Release: NTSC VHS Warner Home Video E1313

The Romans

Episodes:

1. Slave Traders3. Conspiracy
2. All Roads Lead to Rome4. Inferno
Cast:
The Doctor - William HartnellIan Chesterton - William Russell
Barbara Wright - Jaqueline HillVicki - Maureen O'Brien
Plot:
It is Italy 64 AD and the Doctor is intent on a holiday. However, the atmosphere turns sour when he leaves for Rome with Vicki only to be mistaken for a murdered musician - Maximus Petullian. For Maximus is an enemy of Nero and the terrible fate that awaited him in Rome now awaits the Doctor. Meanwhile, Ian and Barbara have been abducted and sold as slaves. Are they doomed to spend the rest of their lives trapped in 64 AD?

Events reach a climax when the time travelers are caught in the Great Fire of Rome: an inferno which will either provide the cover necessary for their escape or which will, quite literally, be the death of them...

Video Release: NTSC VHS Warner Home Video E1313

The Web Planet

Episodes:

1. The Web Planet4. Crater of Needles
2. The Zarbi Invasion5. Invasion
3. Escape to Danger6. The Centre
Cast:
The Doctor - William HartnellIan Chesterton - William Russell
Barbara Wright - Jaqueline HillVicki - Maureen O'Brien
Plot:
"Somewhere, somehow we are being slowly dragged down..."

When the Doctor and his friends stray from their astral planet and the TARDIS materializes in eerie alien surroundings, a mysterious force prevents them from leaving. Is it a natural phenomenon or some malevolent intelligence?

Uncanny occurrences are followed by encounters with the deadly Zarbi and their unknown leader, to whom the travelers fall prey. With their allies, the Menoptra, the travelers must discover how to immobilize the Zarbi, save the Menoptra from massacre and rid the planet of this powerful and horrifying evil. As a growing web begins to envelop the planet, imprisoning the travelers in its mesh, the Doctor must consult all of his wisdom to escape its hypnotic power. But what is at the center of the web and from where does it draw its power...

Video Release: NTSC VHS Warner Home Video E1265

The Crusade

Episodes:

1. The Lion3. The Wheel of Fortune
2. The Knight of Jaffa4. The War-Lords
Cast:
The Doctor - William HartnellIan Chesterton - William Russell
Barbara Wright - Jaqueline HillVicki - Maureen O'Brien
Plot:
It's the 12th Century Palestine and King Richard the Lionheart is embroiled in a Holy War against the Saracen ruler, Saladin. When Barbara is abducted in a Saracen ambush, the Doctor, Ian and Vicki go to the King. Richard lets Ian attempt rescue, equipping him with a knighthood. Meanwhile, the King's secret plans to make peace with Saladin are discovered, putting the Doctor in jeopardy.

Includes a special CD featuring the complete audio soundtrack of the lost episodes two and four.

Video Release: NTSC VHS Warner Home Video E1399

The Space Museum

Episodes:

1. The Space Museum3. The Search
2. The Dimensions of Time4. The Final Phase
Cast:
The Doctor - William HartnellIan Chesterton - William Russell
Barbara Wright - Jaqueline HillVicki - Maureen O'Brien
Plot:
The TARDIS has jumped a time track, landing on Xeros where the Doctor and his companions discover their own future selves-displayed as exhibits in a museum. Morok invaders now rule the planet. Returned to normal time, the Doctor and his companions lead the Xerons in an uprising. But can they avert their fate?
Video Release: NTSC VHS Warner Home Video E1399

The Chase

Episodes:

1. The Executioners4. Journey into Terror
2. The Death of Time5. The Death of Doctor Who
3. Flight Through Eternity6. The Planet of Decision
Cast:
The Doctor - William HartnellVicki - Maureen O'Brien
Steven Taylor - Peter Purves 
Plot:
This vintage six-episode adventure stars William Hartnell as the Doctor. Using his new Time/Space Visualizer, the Doctor learns the Daleks are pursuing him in a time machine of their own design. The two craft commence a frantic chase through the cosmos.
Video Release: NTSC VHS Warner Home Video E1145

The Time Meddler

Episodes:

1. The Watcher3. A Battle of Wits
2. The Meddling Monk4. Checkmate
Cast:
The Doctor - William HartnellVicki - Maureen O'Brien
Steven Taylor - Peter Purves 
Plot:
The TARDIS seems emptier without Barbara and Ian – at least until the Doctor and Vicki discover that the astronaut Steven stowed away before they left Mechanus. Steven’s skepticism toward time travel pushes the Doctor to confront him with living proof. Shortly after landing on a beach in England, they discover a Viking helmet, but Steve remains unconvinced. Instructing Steve and Vicki to wait with the TARDIS, the Doctor seeks further proof.

Heedless of the Doctor’s warning, Steven persuades Vicki to explore the cliffs above the beach, where they find an abandoned wristwatch. Meanwhile, the Doctor investigates a ruined monastery, where he encounters an electric toaster, a gramophone playing ecclesiastic chants, and a monk who traps him in an alcove. Eventually, the Doctor realizes that the famous Battle of Hastings is only a few weeks away. That should provide ample proof for Steven, but who is this mysterious monk, and what is his interest in the events of 1066?

Video Release: NTSC VHS Warner Home Video E1854

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